Prince George's County school board member Edward Burroughs says while the employee is entitled to due process, the school district is taking this seriously.

“The school district all day and all night has been responding to concerns from parents, students and community leaders about the video,” Burroughs said.

For Tolson-Hightower, what happened has brought back memories of another racist attack. In 2004, her house near Indian Head was among two dozen homes in the Hunter Brooke subdivision burned in a racially-motivated arson spree. FOX 5 spoke to her back when it happened.

“It was 14 years ago, but it’s very fresh in my mind,” she said.

She says feeling helpless back then is part of why she confronted the woman on Monday. She says if the woman had just apologized, she would have let it go.

“I don’t want to think that I live in a community that condones racism at all,” Tolson-Hightower said. ”And to know that this is still going on, it does bother me.”